Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz

Release Date: 2022-11-08

Overview: The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.

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Cast

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

as Self

Kathrin Ackermann

as Self

Daniel Barenboim

as Self

Sven Friedrich

as Self

Norman Lebrecht

as Self